Posted by Carey Robson on 10/27/06 17:16

Did you mess around with the D page programming?
Sincerely,
Carey Robson

<dh@.> wrote in message news:if34k2tpdj7e2o67h6o11ceu5pb1n67gth@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:59:28 GMT, "Bill Farnsworth"
> <bill.farnsworth@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>> "Bill Farnsworth" wrote ...
>>>> The first place to start is loose or dirty connections.
>>>
>>"Richard Crowley" wrote
>>> True, but on those small camcorders those are likely to
>>> be those microscopic ribbon connectors that plug
>>> directly into the equally tiny "edge-connectors". Just
>>> disassembling and re-assembling the thing is something
>>> most of us wouldn't attempt without a service manual.
>>
>>Yep.
>>More the reason to suspect loose or dirty connections. :-)
>>Could be issues with the swivel point contacts,
>
> Where would they be? I don't want to dig into it too
> deep, but maybe it wouldn't hurt to take the viewer
> itself apart because it doesn't work anyway. Since two
> out of two of the cameras I've got developed the same
> problem without being abused or damaged in any way,
> I was hoping this would be a common problem that
> people would be very familiar with.
>
>>unless those little
>>cameras have small mercury switches for the LCD viewfinder
>>orientation.
>>
>>
>>Bill

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